Freedom and Security: The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989)

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The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) served as an important negotiating forum beyond the confines of the Cold War. This volume focuses on the Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989), covering prominent issues, such as military security and human rights, as well as less explored topics, including culture and the environment. The book contextualises the Meeting within the CSCE process and global political events, presenting diverse perspectives, retrospectives, and outlooks. It offers insights into the latest scholarship on this important but largely under-researched diplomatic negotiation. Many contributions utilise previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports.

Contributors are: Andrea Brait, Michael Gehler, Maximilian Graf, Anna Graf-Steiner, Simon Graham, Kai Habel, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nina Hechenblaikner, Wanda Jarząbek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav Kunštát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.

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Nina Hechenblaikner, MA, worked as a research associate at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on the Cold War, diplomatic history, and human rights. Her publications include analysis of the Third CSCE Follow-up Meeting and the New Diplomatic History.

Andrea Brait, PD MMag. Dr., University for Continuing Education Krems, is the head of studies at the Center for Cultures and Technologies of Collecting. Among other topics, she has published works on Austria’s cultural diplomacy.
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The CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna (1986–1989)
An Introduction
 Nina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait

Moscow and Vienna on the Road to Helsinki
 Anna Graf-Steiner

From Helsinki to Vienna
The CSCE Process in the Second Cold War
 Hermann Wentker

Austria’s “Mr. CSCE” Helmut Liedermann
A Biographical Approach to the Helsinki Process
 Maximilian Graf

The Concluding Document of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting, 15 January 1989
An Analysis of Its Drafting and an Interpretation in Comparison with Other Declarations
 Michael Gehler

Negotiations on Cultural Cooperation at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry
 Andrea Brait

The “neglected step-child” of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting?
Basket II from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry
 Roland Ernst Laimer

Front Page News or Side Note?
The Human Dimension of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Austrian and West German Newspapers
 Nina Hechenblaikner

Questions of Security
The Role of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting on the Road from the CDE to the CFE Treaty
 Jonas Kaiser

Shifting Agendas?
The United States, the Soviet Union and the Vienna CSCE, 1986–1989
 Jussi M. Hanhimäki

European Political Cooperation at the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989)
 Matthias Peter

Divergent Neutral Strategies
The N+N and the Issue of Disarmament
 Kai Habel

East German Intelligence Perspectives on the CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna
 Simon Graham

A German-German Conflict in a Multilateral Framework
The Debate on Compulsory Currency Exchange at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting
 Willi Schrenk

Human Rights, the Vienna Follow-up Meeting and Political Transformation in the Eastern Bloc
The Case of Poland
 Wanda Jarząbek

The Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting and Czechoslovakia
 Miroslav Kunštát

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This book is primarily aimed at scholars, academic institutes, and libraries who study the Cold War, East-West relations, international conferences and networks, or the foreign policies of the participating states.
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